Calvin L. Brown
Calvin L. Brown
Hometown when you
entered the Service:
Kimball, MN
Service Number: 37549344
Bomb Group: 40th
Squadron: 395th
Location of Unit
when assigned:
Pratt, Kansas
Missions Flown: 4
Hump Missions Flown: 6
Targets:   Anshan, Mukden, Formosa.
 
Awards/Decorations:   Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, American Theater Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Air Offensive Japan, Burma-India-China Offensive, Air Combat India Burma, Presidential Unit Citation, WWII Victory Medal.
 
Service Schools attended:
 
Armorer School, Buckley Field, Colorado   Apr-May 1943
Armorer School, Lowery Field, Colorado   Jun-Jul 1943
Central Fire Control School, Lowery Field, CO   Aug 1943-Feb 1944
 
Military Specialty Earned/Assigned:  

CFC, Gunner

 
Military Rank Upon Discharge:   S/Sgt.
 
Crew Type:   Flight Crew
 
Aircraft Name and
Serial Number/s:
  42-6342 Sister Sue
 
Were you a POW?:   No Where?:
 
Were you interned?:   No Where?:
 
Date transferred from the 58th Bomb Wing:   Sep 1945
 
Post-World war II Military Service:   None
 
Post-World war II Civilian Occupation/s:   Pipe Fitter, Steam Fitter
 
Thoughts about service in the 58th Bomb Wing:   When you are 20 years old you are easily impressed. With an airplane like the B-29, it is easily done.
 
Further Comments :   We lost SISTER SUE in China. Nine of us made it out , two didn't.